ModaPalavra, Florianópolis, V. 17, N. 41, p. 04--15, jan/jun. 2024
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ModaPalavra e-periódico / Dossiê Moda e Emoções na Cultura do Consumo
DOSSIER EDITION - JANUARY/2024
Dossier Fashion and Emotions in Consumer Culture
Studies on consumption show us that, more than to
meet needs and even though this is a practice regulated by the
imperative dynamics of the market, consuming is a constitutive,
concrete, symbolic, and ritualistic part of contemporary lifestyles.
Consumption directly implies the uses, accesses, or interdictions
to possible citizenships and the sensitive ways of living. Through
it, social hierarchies and imaginaries are demarcated, and
subjects and collectivities are decoded into values (economic
and moral).
This process tends to result in the unequal distribution of
access to goods, territories, resources, and services involving the
elaboration of emotions, which are at the same time embodied
and disseminated in the micropolitics of everyday life. If, on one
hand, the fashion we consume – or that consumes us – makes
us unique, on the other, there is a social and collective process
oriented by the multiple conditions of existence and by the
dynamism of social life in fashion systems. Personas, images,
narratives, signatures, iconographies, garments, fabrics, colors,
textures, cuts, patterns, trends, shapes, ornaments, makeup,
perfumery, shoes, etc., all this techno-emotional apparatus that
has a social trajectory that individualizes and collectivizes us,
producing a complex phenomenon of sharing and recognition of
emotions.
Therefore, in the face of fashion, we become sensitive
subjects, sharing or not the sensitivities proposed. When we
dress or are dressed – by the creative industry of fashion
production – we touch the fabric, but in response, we are also
touched by it. Fashion crosses through us, affects us, constitutes
us, awakens senses and emotions that cannot be considered
only manifestations of the self’s individuality in the conditions